Brownsdale, MN
Brownsdale wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Brownsdale at the 13th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 440 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Brownsdale's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 12th percentile nationally.
Brownsdale's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 90.5% of Brownsdale's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 9.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Brownsdale compares
Brownsdale scores 13th nationally and 17th within Minnesota — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brownsdale ranks 27,545 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,461 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 762 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Brownsdale and the insurance market
Brownsdale's low wildfire rating (13th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Brownsdale
With 90.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Brownsdale gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brownsdale's 27,545-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Brownsdale, see the exposure-zones guide.